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Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
Yevette Richards
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Description for Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
Hardcover. In this collection of interviews, Yevette Richards allows Maida Springer to tell her story in her own words. The result is a glimpse into the private struggles and thoughts behind one of the 20th century's most enigmatic international labour leaders. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGB; JFSL3; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 685.
Born in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers' wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO's most important envoys to emerging ... Read more
Born in Panama in 1910, Maida Springer grew up in Harlem. While still a young girl she learned firsthand of the bleak employment options available to African American females of her time. After one employer closed his garment shop and ran off with the workers' wages in the midst of the Depression, Springer joined Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.This proved to be the first step in a remarkable advancement through the ranks of labor leadership positions that were typically dominated by white men. Ultimately, Springer became one of the AFL-CIO's most important envoys to emerging ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822942313
SKU
V9780822942313
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About Yevette Richards
Yevette Richards received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her areas of interest include labor, African American, and women’s histories. She has published the book Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader as well a
Reviews for Conversations With Maida Springer: A Personal History Of Labor, Race, and International Relations
In a fascinating set of interviews, Yevette Richards has documented Springer's own feisty voice illuminating major issues of her day, including the foreign policy of the AFL-CIO, laborite anti-Communism, women's leadership in trade unions, and black freedom struggles here and abroad. - Elleen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara; ""Richards has introduced us to a neglected activist whose struggle for ... Read more